SOS Meditation to Unwind Anxiety

In this week’s guided meditation, teacher and author Melli O’Brien offers a practice that uses gentle, steady awareness to help you find your calm center again when you’re feeling wound up with stress or anxiety.

Melli is a mindfulness educator and mental health coach with over two decades of experience. She is also cofounder of Mindfulness.com and the Mindfulness Summit—the world’s largest mindfulness conference. Melli has distilled and synthesized her knowledge on resilience, stress management, peak performance psychology, positive neuroplasticity training, and mindfulness into The Deep Resilience Method, released as her book Deep Resilience in February 2025. 

Starting July 15th, Melli is hosting The Deep Resilience Experience, a 30-day online course that will help you build unshakeable inner strength in 15 minutes a day. 

The transcription of this guided meditation will be online at Mindful.org next week. 

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Show Notes

Find more from Melli O’Brien here.

To learn more about Melli’s upcoming Deep Resilience Experience (and how you can get $350 in bonus gifts when you sign up before July 15th), click here. 

Go Deeper

Want to understand more about the connection between practicing mindfulness and easing anxiety? These three articles are a great place to start:

• Unwinding Your Anxiety Habit Loop 
• Most Habit-Change Tools Fail With Anxiety—Here’s One that Works
• Why Does My Anxiety Keep Coming Back?
  

For more practice, here are 5 Guided Meditations for Panic and Anxiety that you can try when you need support.

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